Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)

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Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)

By: Dr. Debra Primovic

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Other medical problems can lead to symptoms similar to those encountered in feline immunodeficiency virus. It is important to exclude these conditions before establishing a diagnosis of FIV infection. These conditions include:

Anemia

Ehrlichiosis, an infectious disease caused by unusual bacteria called rickettsia that live inside of white blood cells or platelets

Rocky mountain spotted fever, an infectious disease caused by another rickettsial agent

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a viral disease of cats

Fungal infections such as cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis and coccidioidomycosis

Toxoplasmosis, an infectious disease caused by a protozoa that completes its life cycle in cats

Hemobartonella felis, an infectious disease caused by a bacterial parasite that lives in red b

lood cells

Leukemia, cancer of blood-forming tissues with spread of cancer cells through the bloodstream

Lymphoma, solid tumor of the lymphoid tissues that produce lymphocytes

Multiple myeloma, a tumor of the antibody-producing B-type lymphocytes

Myeloproliferative disease, cancer of the white blood cell producing bone marrow tissue

Other forms of cancer

Sepsis, body wide infection caused by spread of bacteria or their toxins in the bloodstream

Systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly recognizes certain body tissue components as foreign and attacks them.

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